Mules are stubborn. Producer, director and star Clint Eastwood no doubt relished the double meaning in the title of his latest film, “The Mule.” The heavily fictionalized drug courier Eastwood plays here wants no part of today’s world of snowflakes and sensitivities and multiracial realities. Nor...

According to the Scottish Christmas zombie musical “Anna and the Apocalypse,” ground zero for the war on Christmas will take place in the waterfront burg of Little Haven. In actuality second-time feature film director John McPhail shot this eager-to-please picture in Port Glasgow, south of Loch...

Alfonso Cuaron’s new film, “Roma,” gives you so much to see in each new vignette, in every individual composition, in fact, that a second viewing becomes a pleasurable necessity rather than a filmgoing luxury. Great, you think. This time of year, I barely have time to see a movie once let alone...

Like “The War at Home,” another ‘60s-focused documentary returning this week to the Gene Siskel Film Center, the early Kartemquin Films project “Inquiring Nuns” captures a specific time and place in American history while speaking directly to you, the viewer, in late 2018. I doubt “Inquiring Nuns”...

Film history, which mutates every week, has given us a sub-species of the mystery genre that knows how to keep a secret, even from itself. Films in that category resemble riddles with multiple-choice answers, yet none of the choices can be trusted. “The Big Sleep” and “Touch of Evil” don’t care...

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A previous version of this review misspelled a name. A broken visionary endures a harsh, nearly penniless life, for a while, while making the world a richer place one unfashionable canvas at a time. With a story like that, it’s no wonder any new film about Vincent van Gogh tends to put moviegoers...

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On Feb. 9, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach will re-open to the public with a $100 million facelift and a raft of new amenities. But how does the museum’s new upgrades measure up against South Florida’s two other major contemporary-art museums, the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale and...

The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach returns Feb. 9 with a $100 million new look. The museum, which was built in 1941, will have a new wing and sculpture garden designed by Foster and Partners. The firm was founded by British architect Lord Norman Foster, who restored Germany’s Reichstag...

Art lovers and pretenders descend the first week of December on Art Basel Miami Beach, the prestigious art fair that takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Center (Dec. 6-9), and all the satellite fairs, concerts, parties and assorted pop-ups that take place across the region. The whole spectacle...